I have heard a lot of people say that, for me Vol. 2 is a continuation of the first movie I don’t dislike it. It’s just more of the same thing but is lacking the freshness that came with the first film. Between the two I prefer the first to the second mainly I like moves where they form a team. My favorite LOTR movie is Fellowship for much of the same reason.
Yes, I was working my way through Phase 3. I think I will eventually pick it back up, but I have access to a Plex server with a bunch of Criterion movies on it, so I’ve been indulging my inner film nerd/art snob.
I still refuse to acknowledge the concept that the Lord of the Rings is three separate movies. It's one contained stories across three installments. You can't watch any one film without watching the other two, they don't stand alone. Whereas, Guardians 1 can be it's own movie and Guardians 2, though you lose some context, is it's own contained story.
I manage, I still have cable and as such I still experience the Joy of flipping through channels on the weekend and either LOTR or Star Wars will likely be on TNT and while I usually am not gonna catch it from start and rarely watch it through to completion and am more than happy to sit through chunks at a time. Your point ultimately still stands, there is one big bad and as long as Sauron and the one ring are still kicking around you’d wanna know what is gonna happen next.
Honk Beep, Honk Toot Honk Beep (curious if this will make sense to anyone)
And how was it? (I might need to watch this now)
This thing fuckin rules, but does require a lot of patience and decent time commitment. Worth it
What he said.
Yes, Ron Howard is corny as hell, but this movie rules.
Laughing at this while I rewatch Willow.
